gcc on darwin os-x

[Claudio Bley]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 07:21:23PM -0500, Nick Strauss wrote:
> Hi, 

Hello.
 
> I'm trying to use g++ in darwin os-x running on a g5 system with  
> a powerPC 970 chip.  
> I've written the following piece of code:  
> 
> 	unsigned long long alloc = 1LL<<41; 
> 
> 	ptr = new char[alloc]; 
> 
> I get a vm_alloc error.  
> Is the g++ limited to a 32-bit address space on darwin os-x on g5? 

Frankly, I don't know. But to me it seems you're trying to allocate an
array which needs 2 TB of memory. Do you really have that much memory?
In that case, these G5 boxes must be a lot better than I thought.

Regards.
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